phantasticall

_phantasticall_: and a light headed or phantasticall man (by conuersion) they call a Poet.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

And this was thought no small peece of cunning, being in deed a matter of some difficultie to finde out so many wordes beginning with one letter as might make a iust volume, though in truth it were but a phantasticall deuise and to no purpose at all more then to make them harmonicall to the rude eares of those barbarous ages.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

This figure is fit for phantasticall heads and such as be sodaine or lacke memorie.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

After that I was brought from these long and doubtfull thoughts and phantasticall imaginations, and remembring all those maruellous diuine shapes and bodies which I had personally seene with mine eies, I then knew that they were not deceitfull shadowes, nor magicall illusions, but that I had not rightly conceiued of them.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Euen so is the phantasticall part of man (if it be not disordered) a representer of the best, most comely and bewtifull images or apparances of thinges to the soule and according to their very truth.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

For as there ware in the Church of the Jews, many false Prophets, that sought reputation with the people, by feigned Dreams, and Visions; so there have been in all times in the Church of Christ, false Teachers, that seek reputation with the people, by phantasticall and false

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

Euen so is the phantasticall part of man (if it be not disordered) a representer of the best, most comely and bewtifull images or apparances of thinges to the soule and according to their very truth.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

For as well Poets and Poesie are despised, & the name become, of honorable infamous, subiect to scorne and derision, and rather a reproch than a prayse to any that vseth it: for commonly who so is studious in th'Arte or shewes him selfe excellent in it, they call him in disdayne a phantasticall: and a light headed or phantasticall man (by conuersion) they call a Poet.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

And this was thought no small peece of cunning, being in deed a matter of some difficultie to finde out so many wordes beginning with one letter as might make a iust volume, thought in truth it were but a phantasticall deuise and to no purpose at all more then to make them harmonicall to the rude eares of those barbarous ages.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

This figure is fit for phantasticall heads and such as be sodaine or lack memorie.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569